{"id":22646,"date":"2014-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/22646\/bones-could-be-missing-swazi-mans\/"},"modified":"2014-12-10T08:22:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T06:22:01","slug":"bones-could-be-missing-swazi-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2014\/12\/10\/bones-could-be-missing-swazi-mans\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Bones could be missing Swazi man&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Middelburg SAPS, a Swazi family, came forward after hearing about the discovery from friends in Dennilton, who learnt about the find in the Observer. W\/o Lize de Witt says, that the family gave DNA samples in order to verify whether the remains are that of a missing family elder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/20431\/murder-mystery-unfolds\/\">Read previous article here: Murder mystery unfolds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The elderly man went missing in Middelburg many months ago, after leaving the house of the people he was staying with. He was never found.<\/p>\n<p>Police will only identify the family, once DNA confirmation is obtained.<\/p>\n<p>It could take up to six months for the results to be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family has come forward with information that can lead to the identification of the bones found at Botshabelo on 22 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":22647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"category_labels":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}